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Северцова РАН; Товарищество научных изданий КМК.</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18500/1684-7318-2018-4-404-417</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">sevin-126</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Трансформация структуры нерестовых сообществ бесхвостых амфибий пойменных озёр долины р. Медведица (Саратовская область) в условиях многолетнего снижения водности</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Structure Transformation of the Anuran Amphibian Spawning Communities in Floodplain Lakes of the Medveditsa River Valley (Saratov Region) under Conditions of Long-Term Reduction of Water Content</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Ермохин</surname><given-names>М. В.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Yermokhin</surname><given-names>Mikhail V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"/><bio xml:lang="en"/><email xlink:type="simple">ecoton@rambler.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Иванов</surname><given-names>Г. А.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Ivanov</surname><given-names>Gleb A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"/><bio xml:lang="en"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Табачишин</surname><given-names>В. Г.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Tabachishin</surname><given-names>Vasily G.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>410028, Саратов, Рабочая, 24</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>24 Rabochaya Str., Saratov 410028</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">tabachishinvg@sevin.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Саратовский национальный исследовательский государственный университет имени Н. Г. Чернышевского</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Saratov State University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff-2"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Саратовский филиал Института проблем экологии и эволюции им. А. Н. Северцова РАН</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Saratov branch of A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2018</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>12</day><month>07</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>0</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>404</fpage><lpage>417</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Ермохин М.В., Иванов Г.А., Табачишин В.Г., 2019</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2019</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Ермохин М.В., Иванов Г.А., Табачишин В.Г.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Yermokhin M.V., Ivanov G.A., Tabachishin V.G.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://sevin.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/126">https://sevin.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/126</self-uri><abstract><p>Проанализирована структура нерестовых таксоценозов бесхвостых амфибий в пяти пойменных озёрах в долине р. Медведица в 2009 – 2018 гг. В качестве модельных использовали два притеррасных озера (Лебяжье и Кóблово) и три озера центральной поймы (Садок, Кругленькое и Черепашье). Установлена деградация популяций трех наиболее многочисленных видов, снижение степени доминирования чесночницы обыкновенной. Деградации в большей степени подвержены виды с большей дистанцией нерестовых миграций – выраженность изменений последовательно убывает в ряду видов: Pelophylax ridibundus → Pelobates fuscus → Bombina bombina. Показатели структуры сообществ амфибий в притеррасных озёрах Лебяжье и Коблово были стабильны. На фоне малой водности и нестабильного гидрологического режима озёр центральной поймы с продолжительностью исследования пять и более лет были установлены три периода, характеризующих структуру нерестовых таксоценозов амфибий: стабильной структуры, резкого снижения доминирования и увеличения выравненности, увеличения вариабельности основных показателей структуры. В конце третьего периода, характеризующего структуру таксоценозов, отмечена некоторая стабилизация основных параметров при крайне низком уровне численности половозрелых особей всех видов амфибий. Высокий уровень весеннего половодья р. Медведица в 2018 г. определил начало выхода из аномально продолжительного периода малой водности нерестовых озёр в пойме (с 2009 по 2017 г.) и их функционирования в режиме временных водоёмов.. Произошедшее резкое увеличение водности пойменных озер и удлинения их гидропериода позволяет констатировать начало процесса восстановления численности популяций и структуры сообществ бесхвостых амфибий.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The structure of spawning taxocenoses of anuran amphibians in five floodplain lakes of the Medveditsa river valley in 2009–2018 is analysed. Two near-terrace lakes (Lebyazhye and Koblovo) and three lakes of the central floodplain (Sadok, Kruglen’koye, and Cherepashie) were used as model ones. The degradation of the populations of the three most numerous species, a decrease in the dominance degree of the common spadefoot toad were established. Degradation is more characteristic of species with a longerer distance of spawning migrations – the severity of changes consistently decreases in the row of species: Pelophylax ridibundus → Pelobates fuscus → Bombina bombina. Indices of the structure of amphibian communities in the near-terrace lakes Lebyazhye and Koblovo were stable. Against the background of low water content and unstable hydrological regime of the central floodplain lakes with a survey duration of five or more years, three periods were established to characterize the structure of spawning amphibian taxocenoses, namely: a stable structure, a sharp decrease in dominance and an increase in evenness, and an increase in the variability of the main attributes of the structure. At the end of the third period, which characterizes the structure of taxocenoses, some stabilization of the main parameters was noted with an extremely low number of mature individuals of all amphibian species. The high level of spring flood of the Medveditsa river in 2018 determined the beginning of the exit from the abnormally long period of low water content of the spawning lakes in the floodplain (from 2009 till 2017) and their functioning in the hydrological regime as temporary water bodies. The sudden increase in water content of the floodplain lakes and the extension of their hydroperiod allow the beginning of the recovery process of the population size and community structure of anuran amphibians to be noted.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Anura</kwd><kwd>Pelophylax ridibundus</kwd><kwd>Pelobates fuscus</kwd><kwd>Bombina bombina</kwd><kwd>нерестовый таксоценоз</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Anura</kwd><kwd>Pelophylax ridibundus</kwd><kwd>Pelobates fuscus</kwd><kwd>Bombina bombina</kwd><kwd>spawning taxocenosis</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="ru">Работа выполнена при частичной финансовой поддержке Российского фонда фундаментальных исследований (проект № 16-04-01248) и плановой научной темы (проект № 0109-2018-00010).</funding-statement><funding-statement xml:lang="en">This work was partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 16-04-01248) and the planned research topic (project no. 0109-2018-00010).</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Antonyuk E. 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